PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

This is your brain on architecture City Lab   Why people have out-of-body experiences, The Atlantic Social-media messages are becoming more complex, and nobody knows why, MIT Technology Review Neuroscience offers insights into the opioid epidemic, Bloomberg View CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players, CNN The algorithm that makes preschoolers obsessed with YouTube, The Atlantic Mice show signs of mental disorder after brains injected with cells from schizophrenic humans, STAT Indian musician plays guitar as doctors perform brain surgery, Reuters  Grounding ethics from below: CRISPR-cas9 and genetic modification, The Neuroethics Blog  The emerging science of computational psychiatry, MIT Technology Review Here’s a clever demonstration of how we simulate the mental experiences of story characters, The British Psychological Society Research Digest  At Johns Hopkins, clergy try mind-altering drugs for scientific research, The Washington Post Uber, but for happiness, The Atlantic   Clinicopathological evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in players of American football, JAMA   Neuromorphic computing with nanoscale spintronic oscillators, Nature Arid1b haploinsufficient mice reveal neuropsychiatric phenotypes and reversible causes of growth impairment, eLife Improved memory for information learnt before alcohol use in social drinkers tested in a naturalistic setting, Nature Scientific Reports Is overimitation a uniquely human phenomenon? Insights from human children as compared to bonobos, Child Development

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